Taboo!: The Hidden Culture of a Red Light Area

Paperback | January 1, 2011

The Islamic injunction against extramarital sex adds to the complexities that prostitution has brought to Pakistani society. The Shahi Mohalla or Royal Locality is the most infamous flesh market of Pakistan which has existed through the centuries. In the process it has left an indelibleimpression on not only the social consciousness of Pakistan, but also on many arts like dancing and singing. This is a scholarly, yet sympathetic, analysis of an area no one admits to have visited, and which nevertheless flourishes under the eyes of the guardians of law and public morality.

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The Islamic injunction against extramarital sex adds to the complexities that prostitution has brought to Pakistani society. The Shahi Mohalla or Royal Locality is the most infamous flesh market of Pakistan which has existed through the centuries. In the process it has left an indelibleimpression on not only the social consciousness of...

Fouzia Saeed, with a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Minnesota, has spent the past twelve years in positions related to the task of engendering social change in Pakistan, with organizations like National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage, Aga Khan Foundation, and UNDP,
Pakistan. She was a founder of the first private...